Everyday we come to school to nourish our minds, but we also need to nourish our bodies. On the Poly campus, there are four main options for lunch. These four are bringing a lunch from home or purchasing from the vending machines, lunch truck or Fresh gourmet. When standing in line to order for the lunch truck, I heard someone make a comment that puzzled me. He said, “Does the lunch truck raise the prices when they serve the students at Poly?”
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Majority of the kids at Polytechnic are ordering food from the lunch truck. The menu has a variety of items, ranging from beef tacos to a chicken sandwich. Most of my peers and I believe that the prices are way to expensive.
The not-so-popular option of bringing a lunch is way cheaper in the end. Women’s Day Magazine said that the grocery bill for an average family of four is about one hundred dollars.
For a plain burger, fries, a drink, and a cookie, the lunch truck costs around nine fifty a day for a fulfilling lunch, totaling to about forty-eight dollars a week. This means that if a student at poly ate a fulfilling meal at the lunch truck every day for the entire school year, the cost would be approximately seventeen hundred dollars.
So, for one students lunch each week, it is about as much as three meals a day for a week for a family of two.
Proposition: If a student at Poly were to bring a lunch from home for at least four days a week, not only would he probably be receiving a more nutritional meal, he would be saving about fifty dollars a month.
